On Soft Clustering for Correlation Estimators: Model Uncertainty, Differentiability, and Surrogates

Overview

The repository contains all material that went into the American Astronomical Society Winter Session abstract, On Differentiable Correlation Functions by Edward Berman and Jacqueline McCleary.

An expanded version of that work is currently in submission to the Open Journal of Astrophysics with the title On Soft Clustering for Correlation Estimators: Model Uncertainty, Differentiability, and Surrogates by Edward Berman, Sneh Pandya, Jacqueline McCleary, Marko Shuntov, Caitlin Casey, Nicole Drakos, Andreas Faisst, Steven Gillman, Ghassem Gozaliasl, Natalie Hogg, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Anton Koekemoer, Wilfried Mercier, Diana Scognamiglio, and COSMOS-Web: The JWST Cosmic Origins Survey.

A short summary of this work is available here

Citation

@misc{berman2025softclusteringcorrelationestimators,
      title={On Soft Clustering For Correlation Estimators: Model Uncertainty, Differentiability, and Surrogates}, 
      author={Edward Berman and Sneh Pandya and Jacqueline McCleary and Marko Shuntov and Caitlin Casey and Nicole Drakos and Andreas Faisst and Steven Gillman and Ghassem Gozaliasl and Natalie Hogg and Jeyhan Kartaltepe and Anton Koekemoer and Wilfried Mercier and Diana Scognamiglio and COSMOS-Web and : and The JWST Cosmic Origins Survey},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2504.06174},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={astro-ph.IM},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06174}, 
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{2025AAS...24542401B,
       author = {{Berman}, Edward and {McCleary}, Jacqueline},
        title = "{On Differentiable Correlation Functions}",
    booktitle = {American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts},
         year = 2025,
       series = {American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts},
       volume = {245},
        month = jan,
          eid = {424.01},
        pages = {424.01},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025AAS...24542401B},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}